The slum : its story and solution / by Harry Barnes.

  • Barnes, Harry, 1870-1935.
Date:
1931
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Credit: The slum : its story and solution / by Harry Barnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    viously vested in a Secretary of State. All such powers and duties were so assigned by Order in Council dated 27th Feb- ruary, 1905. The requirement as to the necessity for the confirmation by Parliament of a Provisional Order in these cases, remained in force, as regards the majority of such schemes, until 1909. By the Act of 1890, already referred to, however, a “ reconstruction Scheme became operative on the issue of an Order of the Local Government Board, without confirmation by Parliament, except so far as it provided for the taking of land otherwise than by agreement, and unless a petition was presented to the Board against the Order within two months of its publication, and was not subsequently withdrawn. In 1903 this provision was extended to ‘‘ improvement schemes ” also. In 1909 it was unconditionally provided, in effect, that an Order of the Local Government Board sanctioning either a “reconstruction’’ or an “improvement” scheme should take effect without confirmation by Parliament.) When the scheme was confirmed, the local authority might either purchase the lands included in it, and sell or let them to persons willing to carry it out, or they might contract with the owners or with other persons to carry it out, but they might not themselves, without the express approval of the Local Government Board, undertake to rebuild the houses or carry into execution any part of the scheme, except as regards the demolition of buildings and the laying out and completion of the necessary new streets. In any case in which the local authority themselves, acting under such approval, erected any dwellings for purposes of re-housing in connexion with a scheme, they were required to sell and dispose of them within ten years from date of com- pletion. This requirement remained in force until 1909. The Act of 1875 was the first of a series of Acts passed during the period 1875 to 1885, and commonly called Cross’s Acts,^ which all deal with this problem. The last Act of this series, that of 1885, which gave effect to 1 The other Acts, or parts of Acts, included in the series bearing that name were : Artisans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1875 (38 and 39 Viet. c. 49). Artisans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement Act, 1879 (42 and 43 Viet. c. 63). Artisans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1880 (43 Viet. c. 2). Part I of the Artisans’ Dwellings Act, 1882 (45 and 46 Viet. c. 54). Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1885 (48 and 49 Viet. c. 72) so far as it amends the previous Acts in the series.